Despite a growing awareness and preparation for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the overall arc of DDoS attacks is not weakening, but actually gaining more attention from the companies and personnel who have experienced these threats first-hand.
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Read moreDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is the internet equivalent of blocking the doorway to a business. During a DDoS attack, a website is flooded with fake traffic, which the web servers dutifully try to respond to, until they are crushed by the load. Meanwhile, legitimate customers and users can’t get to the website. Believe it or not, YOU can play a role in the prevention of DDoS attacks. Mainly, because hackers take control of ordinary, household IoT devices to orchestrate their attacks.
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Read moreIn the security industry, we classify our security infrastructure in a variety of ways. One important classification method is called the “CIA Triad,” which refers to three security objectives defined by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). These three objectives are Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. The goal of any information security team is to protect against these three objectives, and the goal of an attacker is to compromise one or more of these objectives.
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